When someone dies, we talk about what “happens”, as if death were a movement, a step to the other side. It involves entering a different kind of existence. And sometimes we hear people say ‘Dad is up there watching us’ gold ‘Grandma is my guardian angel’. However, we cannot be 100% sure that we will live beyond the grave. Every now and then we may run into someone who cannot even conceive of a non-physical existence. For them ‘When you are dead, you are dead‘. So when the Grim Reaper arrives, will we all die or will we all survive?

It’s worth noting that there are research studies showing that the human mind can function outside of space and time – outside the confines of physical reality. I’m thinking about the evidence for ESP, that is, telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

If you don’t believe these findings, what about the facts of ordinary consciousness? Doesn’t this also show that a part of us can exist outside of physical reality? We dream, remember, feel and think. Although my consciousness is affected by the natural world, my consciousness itself is not part of the observable objective universe. No scientist can observe my subjective experience. Why can’t human consciousness exist after the death of the body?

And human motivation? Things like light, rocks, and biological cells apparently cannot be intentional. So science denies any creative design in nature. However, human consciousness itself has goals. At least mine does. I want to please my loved ones, I have plans to go on vacation and try to make my writing useful to readers. Don’t my intentions somehow define who I am? Who will I always be?

What do the spiritual teachings of the world say about whether we survive death?

Furthermore, religious and spiritual traditions, both in the western and eastern world, teach some form of human survival after death. For example, the cultures of Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, and ancient Egyptians believed in an afterlife and a spirit world.

In the past, Christianity had a hell of fire and damnation for the wicked. In Britain these days the churches still say there is an afterlife. However, they now tend to have a “wait and see” attitude about what exactly it will be like.

So if consciousness continues, what kind of existence after death would it really be? Would we retain a sense of who we each are: our personal identity? Be aware of other people? Do you have sensations and be able to move? And what about the question about those people who have led a life accumulating severely negative karma? Individuals who hurt others because of their selfish life. What kind of future life will they have?

According to Ravi Zacharias (Indian-born Canadian-American Christian writer) when you think about it, one of the fundamental questions in life has to do with our destiny. You have asked, I have asked, every thinking person asks. “Where do I go after my death?“

Today, many Christians no longer mention hell as a place after death. Some may accept that there is a real evil that is influencing us. But they, how could those who worship a loving Father believe in eternal damnation by a punitive deity? And the figure of Satan is often seen as superstitious nonsense. The subject of hell has become embarrassing for many of those who had grown up with the beliefs of the church.

However, the words “heaven” and “hell” continue in common parlance. We say ‘I’m in heaven‘which means the feeling of peace and joy. TO ‘infernal’ state of mind, is when our ‘inner demons’ they are worrying us. We also talk about a terrible situation like ‘hell on earth’ Y ‘a living hell’. When catastrophic things happen, the phrase ‘all hell is breaking loose’ comes to mind. In other words, by using the term ‘hell’, people refer to a state of mind rather than an external place.